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Saturday Schmaturday’s Randomness
August 23, 2008 | 
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Today’s blog post will be about a bunch of random things…but isn’t it always? haha
I’m a member of the UAW and today we had a big meeting. Our contract is up and so we had a vote today. These meetings are always the same. I hate going to them, but I understand why we need them and everything. Generally my sister goes with me, but this time I went alone…and wouldn’t you know it…in the middle of the dam meeting I start to feel a panic attack coming on!! Yikes! So I quick get a pill from my purse and plan my get away to the bathroom. I ended up calming down, so I didn’t have to take the pill, but I really hate how those attacks just kind of sneak up on me for no apparent reason! Hopefully all of this union stuff works out. I don’t want to strike…
I have been all over the internet downloading scrapbook freebie kits from many talented artists who share their creations with us. I am so thankful that people offer these kits and templates free of charge to us…however…I wish that people who make tagger sized kits would indicate that they are tagger sized. The difference between the regular sizes and the tagger sizes are HUGE…like 3600 for regular and 800 for tagger. So you can’t even use some of the elements because they don’t blow up well to scrapper size. It’s unfortunate too, because some of these tagger sized kits come with some pretty adorable elements!!! I hate to complain…so maybe we’ll call this “venting” but I really wish they’d say what size the kit is…or even the paper size. Some do, and I am so thankful…but I hate when I am so excited to use a cute kit and then come to find out it’s so teenie tiny!!
I don’t know if I’ll have a scrappy page to post today. I’ve kind of been creatively challenged lately. I don’t know what it is, but the last couple pages I’ve started I’ve just deleted. I can’t seem to make anything that I really like. I’ll have to try again.
I saved this entry and started working on a scrappy page and here’s what I came up with.
This is my niece in Australia. My SIL sends us pictures and unfortunately, they are really small files so they don’t blow up too well for scrappy pages. (Probably should use some tagger sized kits for those! heh). I’m not too thrilled with how this came out, but I decided to finish it rather than scrap it. No pun intended.
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The Hubs’ Man Crush and other Randomness
My husband has a huge man crush on Dale Earnhardt Jr…good ole, #88. It’s his newest obsession. We must have all things with Amp, 88, or DEJ as I call him on it! And we need to get little toy cars, hats, shirts, jackets, bbq covers, license plates…etc!!! Good Lord!! I think he’s more in love with this guy than he is me! heh… Geez, I hope not anyways. lol
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hehe…he may not be too happy with me when he sees that!! oh well…it’s SO true. He has a total man crush on DEJ.
On a similar note…today was the Woodward Dream Cruise. Basically, it’s a HUGE classic car show on a road and it stretches for miles and miles. Cars go “crusin” and there are about a million people there. If you are into that thing you will know exactly what I’m talking about. If you’re not…well it basically looks like this:
I took this photo last year on Friday, but it’s the same on Saturday. Anyway…my Dad and any “real” car guy spends just about the whole week on Woodward with their cars. My dad got interviewed by the local newspaper on Tuesday!!
This got long fast…drank an amp tonight (part of the man crush is keeping amp in the house heh) and omg…never again. I’m all hopped up on the caffiene!!! haha
I should add picture credits for this post: Dale Earnhardt Caricature & Pict of my Dad and Elijah
Manic Monday
Ugh…Mondays suck, plain and simple. And this will be random…but that’s my style LOL
My husband has been having major issues with his depression lately and with the newest developments, that’s probably not going to get better for a while. Good thing he goes to see his pdoc this week.
My husband has a disease called Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome along with a handful of other autoimmune diseases. He’s on disability, although we have yet to see a check…grrr…but he’s still working. He’s had a number of TIA’s (mini strokes), has daily migraines, and omg I could go on and on. If you want to read his story it’s located at this link: http://www.apsfa.org/docs/APSFAVol9SprSum2008.pdf on page 9. It’s a mess and it’s been a long few years since his diagnosis.
We’ve been through a lot and will continue to get through things. So it’s ok. I don’t want to wallow or dwell on him and his disease…
Tonight was the season premiere of Paranormal State. I love this show, along with Ghosthunters. They both freak the heck out of me, but I really enjoy them. A friend of mine who also enjoys GH got a letter from someone telling her how she can “save” her and it had all this religion, like bible beating religion, crap in it and also things about the occult. Now why in the heck do people automatically assume that someone who finds paranormal things interesting worships the devil or is wiccan? Both my friend and I were raised Catholic. We both believe in God and Jesus and all of that. I am not sure if she calls herself “Catholic” or not, but I do. And FGS neither of us worship the devil or need “saving”…geez people, get a fricking grip already!!
Ok on to scrappy things. I still have that big ranty blog to write…I’ll get to it, I’m still mad about it!!
This layout took me FOREVER! omg I worked on it for a long long time. I may have to do the credits tomorrow because after a while I was just trying to find things that matched the color sceme. I found a BUNCH of new templates tonight that I cannot wait to use.
Ok here is…
Template from Sweet Shop Designs
Most elements from various kits by Krista
Crown by Kirsty Wiseman
Papers from Sable Brule freebie kit…various artists
2 Scrappy Layouts
Today I did two layouts. I was going to blog earlier, but I just have time to post these two pages now. I have to get my lunch together for tomorrow and clean up the kitchen before Army Wives is on at 10:00.
Page #1 is my nephew. He had that long hair do that is so popular right now and then he got his head shaved! It’s such a change! His favorite color is orange, so that’s why I use a lot of oranges for pages I make of him. And the Digitreats Jump and Run kits have good oranges in them so I used them again for this page.
Credits:I don’t think I used a template
Fuzzy Wuzzy Alpha by The Digi Twins @ Digital Candy
Papers from ABC Jump add on kits
The second page is of my big puppa, Topaz. He LOVES his kiddie pool! And I love taking pictures of him in it! lol
Template by Purple Tulip Designs
Elements and Papers from Refresh freebie kit by Scrap Girls
Wednesday Scrappy Layout
I started this last night and my cousin and her parents came over tonight so I put some finishing touches on it.
Background…our poor little Onyx has been called an anteater and a needle nose since we brought her home. I, personally, don’t see the resemblance. LOL But I may be bias.
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Template: Lively Up! Designs
Papers and Elements: Picnic & Spring Fling Bling by liella
Anteater by Grafx 4 All
GHI Review and More
Well GHI was not all that great last night. I found the first one to be a little boring and barely watched it. The second location was beautiful and I really thought the place was haunted. I’m not the ghost hunter though! I actually thought that the rerun of GH that was on before GHI came on was better than the new episode of GHI. I hope they get better. The previews of next week’s show looked good, so we’ll see how that goes. Of course I will still watch, but it’s not as good as I expected.
Made a new page tonight of my neice. She’s in Australia right now and she’s grown so much in a year!! My SIL sent me this picture and it’s one of my absolute favorites!!
Credits: Papers and Elements – “Mango Tango” freebie by Sunshine Studio ScrapsTemplate: Ack, I can’t remember where I got it. Damn
My husband and I also have a lot of errand type things to do tomorrow. And I need to clean the house because my sister is coming over on Saturday. We’re going to do her invitations and things for her wedding. They should be cool and omg doing them on the computer allows you to design them yourself and is cheaper in the long run!
Oooh found the new Project Runway on tv! Got to run and watchie!!
Happy Windsday! ~GHI Night!
Tonight is Ghosthunters International and I sure hope it is better than last week. It’s on in a couple hours so I have a little bit to recreate last night’s Topaz page and make another one, hopefully.
Got some GREAT freebie kits today!! Especially one called “Mango Tango” from the Sunshine Studio Scraps peeps! I LOVE it and can’t wait to use it. The colors are great!
Ok now to the scrappy pages!!
This first one was the one I was trying to make last night. I used a different picture though when I redid it tonight.
Credit: Paper & Elements – “Just a Boy” by PurplecolourzTemplate by: Ditters Doodles
And here’s the second one I did. I am not thrilled with this one and will probably redo it at some point, or else use the picture in a different layout.
Too Tired Tuesday
I am exhausted. Who knows why, I could go to sleep right now and sleep till tomorrow.
We found out about our stimulus check. We’re basically not getting it…which is fine because it’s paying off an old debt and that’s better than money that we didn’t have but got for free. The husband is not happy, but I’m ok with it. We would have just spent it on stuff we don’t need anyways.
Still on the money subject…my husband was granted disability in April and as of last week, we still hadn’t heard anything about it. Well, after a few phone calls to our state reps, we finally got his letter of determination. We really need this to start soon before we get too far behind. Hopefully the fire we lit will get the ball rolling a little bit quicker.
I started making a scrappy page using a picture of Topaz and Photoshop crashed!! I’m not in the habit of saving as I go…I NEED to get into this…so I lost it. I liked how it was coming, so I’ll probably redo it tomorrow night.
New Blog Look!
Well, in my endless search for free scrappy things online, I ran across Sweet Scraps. Christie is the blog owner and she has the sweetest kit available for free! It’s called “Simply Adorable” and it really is just that!
The theme of her blog was made by Allie with one of her kits. It’s too cute, so I went and checked out Allie’s blog and she has other themes available and also directions on how to use them. I tried to use the kitty one but the background was a little dark for me, so I decided to make my own!
Why pears? Well, it’s a long running joke from when I worked in the grocery store. I’d smell the pear wrappers…they really smell like pears!! And it just escalated from there!
So now I collect pears. My kitchen and dining room “theme” is pears and I have pears everywhere in my house. Here are a couple photos of the kitchen and dining room.
Razzle…aka Yidda in the dining room window
Our baker’s rack and my pears!On a different note…I’m going to try to display one of my completed pages each day I blog and I’m going to try to blog everyday. I may not have a lot to say and who knows who’s reading, but isn’t that how it all starts? Someone reads one blog, something catches their eye and then they come back. That’s how I’ve found most of the blogs I read on a regular basis.
I’ll post the page a bit later, I need to make one today 
